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• It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

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  Believe, Long, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

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  Philosopher, Sense Of Humor, Reverse

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.125, Criss Jami

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• To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

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  Eye, Risk, Negative

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

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  Success, Ego, Challenges

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.87, Criss Jami

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• The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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  Lonely, Bored, Solitude

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

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  Wise, Men, Profound

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

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  Writing, Men, Vision

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• Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

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  Running, Block, Opportunity

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• Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

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  Alarms, Wake Up, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.56, Criss Jami

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• For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

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  Honesty, Humility, Pride

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

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  Men, Delight, Favors

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

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  Psychology, Trying, Language

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

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  Philosophy, Book, Hands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

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  Animal, Men, Lions

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.81, Criss Jami

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• It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

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  Done, Fool, Originality

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

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  Song, Thinking, Situation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.112, Criss Jami

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• Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

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  Brain, May, Cooks

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

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  Mother, Dream, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

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  Genius, Inferiority, Demand

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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• Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

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  Skills, Looks, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

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  Knowing, Weakness, Impossible

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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• Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

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  Thinking, Mind, Great Minds

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.20, Criss Jami

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• Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

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  Men, Giving, Alcohol

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

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• To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

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  Night, Media, Illusion

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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